Coinbase, the top cryptocurrency exchange in the United States will soon be a publicly listed company once its COIN stock launches on the Nasdaq stock exchange on April 14. Generally, the sentiment around the listing has been overwhelmingly positive from both the crypto and traditional financial markets. With the date fast approaching, analysts have been issuing
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) reached a new all-time high at $63,478 on April 13 on Binance. The market sentiment around Bitcoin and Ether (ETH) is overwhelmingly bullish, but the short-term sentiment remains mixed. Analysts use the term “price discovery” when the price of an asset reaches a new all-time high. On April 13, the
Africa remains the home to a large proportion of the world’s population that is unbanked according to a 2017 World Bank Global Index survey. Many of those who are unbanked cite their lack of official identification particulars as one of the main reasons for their predicament. Cryptos Narrowing Financial Exclusion Gap Therefore, in their effort
Springtime is coming to the North American cryptocurrency mining industry. With access to robust capital markets, cheap power, a stable political climate and increasing participation of technological innovators, industrial-grade mining operations are burgeoning in the United States and Canada, providing competition to Chinese mining pools that now control more than half of the world’s hashing
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is launching tradable stock tokens that aim to enable a wider section of the public to pocket capital returns on equities, including potential dividends, without having to purchase full, traditional shares. The first publicly tradable equity in the form of a Binance stock token will be Tesla, the share price of which
Over the past decade, the proliferation of blockchain technology has resulted in hundreds of networks that are unable to talk to each other. With data siloed and developers’ options now extremely limited, the sector has been described as being at a “historical crossroads” — and unless this industry evolves and expands, it’s feared that blockchain
Ether (ETH) surged to a new all-time high on Tuesday, with the next major update in its ongoing development — dubbed “Berlin” — scheduled for Wednesday, April 14. The Ether price reached $2,228 on April 13, marking the highest dollar valuation the coin has achieved since its conception. The coin’s market capitalization exceeded $250 billion
South Korea’s “big four” crypto exchanges — Bithumb, Korbit, Upbit and Coinone — are showing a marked cooling off in Bitcoin (BTC) enthusiasm. Meanwhile, altcoins are now accounting for the highest 24-hour trading volume according to data from multiple market aggregators. Apart from XRP, which is often popular among crypto traders in Asia, altcoins with
press release PRESS RELEASE. AscendEX, formerly BitMax, an industry-leading digital asset trading platform built by Wall Street quant trading veterans, has announced the listing of the OptionRoom Token (ROOM) under the pair USDT/ROOM on Apr 13 at 1:00 p.m. UTC. OptionRoom is a user-governed oracle and forecast protocol built on Polkadot. OptionRoom can serve as
Ethereum infrastructure firm ConsenSys and venture capital fund Pantera Capital have led a group of investors in a $5-million funding round for Virtue Poker, according to an announcement on Monday. Other participants in the strategic investment round included blockchain investment outfit DFG and FunFair founder Jez San. Virtue Poker, an Ethereum-based decentralized poker platform, was
India has been the subject of intense speculation regarding the future legal status of Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies in recent months. Speculation went into overdrive in February when an anonymous Indian minister told Bloomberg that a nationwide blanket ban on cryptocurrency was imminent and that holders would be given a matter of months to
On April 12, the international provider of colocation services for low-carbon cryptocurrency mining Bitriver announced it is launching a pre-sale of tokens backed by 100 megawatts (MW) of mining power in Siberia. The ERC20 tokens called “bitriver token (BTR)” will represent a single watt-hour (Wh) of Bitriver’s power in Bratsk. A Low-Carbon Crypto Mining Token
The mainstream adoption of blockchain technology continues to pick up steam as stories like Microstrategy using Bitcoin (BTC) to pay bonuses for its board of directors and Topps announcing plans to release nonfungible token collectible trading cards make headlines on a almost daily basis. As more companies and organizations explore what the integration of blockchain technology can
Galaxy Digital has submitted a Bitcoin (BTC) ETF filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the form S-1 published by the SEC on Monday, the Galaxy Bitcoin ETF — if approved — will trade on the NYSE Arca exchange with the Bloomberg Galaxy Bitcoin index tapped as the pricing mechanism. Detailing
Key XRP Outlook XRP almost hits $1.5 for the first time since January 2018. The upside boost comes in the wake of small legal wins for Ripple Labs as it battles the US Securities and Exchange over a lawsuit. Technically, the Ripple token has climbed to overvalued levels, requiring a neutralizing price correction. XRP, the
On the latest episode of Blockchain and Booze, Draper Gorem Holm’s Adam Levy sat down with three leaders in the blockchain industry to talk about Layer-2 solutions on the Ethereum network. He was joined by Stani Kulechov of AAVE, Jack O’Holleran of SKALE, and Antonio Juliano of dYdX. What began as a discussion on high